The NON-FOTM

Just had a curious question pop in my head. I know when patch notes and stuff say oh xclass will be FOTM, 90 billion kazillion (no for all you troll and such, clearly not actual numbers so shh) people roll one just to be FOTM. But alot of the time out of curiosity, when i'm not pvping or something on my main i fool around with the "bad" classes, just to make it like a personaly challagen i guess? like rolling aff lock this go around or was running UH dk and my rogue, and didnt have much luck with the lock or rogue, but once i got into my DK again it was fun, and not as "Bad" as people were saying. i was just curious, do other people do this too? Roll the "bad" toon just to prove something, or see how good you really are, or maybe just to see why everyone say's they're bad? just a thought.

I rerolled dk, my main is a hunter but fuck it, got bored of playing it for 6+ years xD, dk are so awesome the play style, so even if they sucks I'd enjoy it

"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.

In PvE, the pronounced differences between the top DPS spec of any class is often not as large as world of logs would have you believe, solely because there just aren't any good players logging parses for the underpowered specs, which exaggerates the disparity between the good and bad DPS specs of one class.

In PvP, you'll frequently find that the average notion the community holds towards a particular spec is at least somewhere in the neighborhood of being correct. As you found out, while UH wasn't terrible, it wasn't the sustained damage powerhouse it has historically been known for.

Some people pick FOTM class to be OP and laugh at everyone, other people pick non-FOTM class to be UP and wine on forums and feel more special. Neither of these reasons to pick a class are good.

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Some people pick FOTM class to be OP and laugh at everyone, other people pick non-FOTM class to be UP and wine on forums and feel more special. Neither of these reasons to pick a class are good.

I play fotm because I always play classes that can deal with rogues (the flavor of the game) in 1v1, and the same fotm classes seem to always be nerfed so they can't handle rogues anymore, which means I gotta roll fotm again and again as they become rogue fodder at GC's hands.

I have had the same main for 5 years. Whether the class was doing good or poorly, I have stuck with it.

I also have a friend who has played the same toon since BC. No alts. He has stuck by his main faithfully through thick and thin.

On the opposite side of the coin... I honestly do know people who just reroll whatever is considered "OP" each season. Sadly, I think this makes up a majority of the playerbase. I think it's sad, but people will be people. They want some kind of edge. Even if they don't find the class fun, they play it anyway because it's OP. This is stupid to me. I'd rather just play something I enjoy.

I played a priest to mid wotlk, priest was shit in PvP until that point. No point doing arena since resto/arms and Holydin/UHDK. Rolled a feral and have been quite happy with it. Only FoTM i've ever rolled was a DK, got it up couple months ago and... Well shit it so cash, doing dailies has never been so fun. Pull 10 mobs, loot, rinse and repeat. Downtime is absolutely 0 seconds.

Originally Posted by Pie Eater

Have you read the planned frost mage "nerfs" ?!? It's like nerfing a hangman's rope by coloring it blue.

The thing is... In random battlegrounds, duels, world pvp, or rated BGs it's hard to really recognize what is fotm, because there are so many other variables present.

Unless you are like an extremely good player and are sitting in a top 10 team on your battlegroup (or just haven't hit a 'wall' yet) you will most likely be sitting below 65-70% win ratio. And this will be the case both if you are playing at 2300 and 1700 rating. So while you may "think" that you are doing well with a good win ratio at 1700 rating playing RMP or some other crappy comp, once you get higher (2-2.2k) you will start facing fotm comps 95% of the time, and you will quickly realise that you would be much better playing a better class, because you are unable to get further as your current class.

So yes, you may be doing well at your current rating, but by playing a better comp/class, you would be doing well at a rating 300-500 higher than your current.